So Feedly turned out to be incapable of handling my enormous blogroll. It freezes up and takes forever to scroll down. And it isn’t the fault of my Internet connection because, with a gamer in the house, we have the fastest connection available in the area.
I’m seeing that many people are reading the blog through The Old Reader, so now I’m trying it as a place for my blogroll. It also gives me a chance to prune the blogroll because it has grown huge and wild.
I was wondering how many blogs you have in your reader? Are you feeds split into folders, or all at the same level?
We have some users who are able to handle over 1000 feeds, so we’re definitely interested in chasing down and correcting the issue you are seeing.
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It’s over 800 feeds and there are no folders.
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I’ve been using Bloglovin.It was a tie between this and feedly – bloglovin won.
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The only thing that prevents me from using feedly is its need for a browser plugin.
I can’t and don’t want to install an annoying plugin on every site just to read my blog roll. Unfortunately feedly refuses to create a web interface that works without, probably because they would loose their ability to track the web pages you visit.
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Ah! I was wondering why they were doing that!!! I will remove them immediately.
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I’ve never used a reader.
I liked the old Blogger blogroll, which showed you who had posted new stuff, but the new Blogger interface was so awful that I had to forgo it and switch to WordPress instead. Google seem determined to antagonise their users as much as possible.
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Yes, I liked the Blogger blogroll, too, but you are right, the new interface made Blogger unusable. I still use it for my online course but the fun has gone out of it.
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I don’t have any experience with Windows(which I presume you use) feedreaders, but Blogbridge is apparently specially designed for people with huge blogrolls. Should this not work for you, just head over to the Wikipedia list of feed readers, sort them by operating system and see if you find anything useful. I much prefer desktop feedreaders to any web-based service because, no matter what the developers decide to do, there’s no risk of someone pulling the plug on them and leaving me without the ability to check my blogroll. Worst thing they can do is stop adding new stuff to the software. It just doesn’t feel right for me to have my data managed outside computers I control.
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This is an idea that makes a lot of sense. Originally, I thought I would be changing computers more often than blogroll readers but now it seems like things are changing in the opposite direction.
Thank you for the links! I will be checking this out.
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You’re welcome. Blogbridge also seems to have an optional online account thingie if you really need to check things from a different computer.
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